SOSC 3375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Michel Foucault, Biopower, Governmentality

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 3375
• Professor: Tanja Juric

Document Summary

Lecture outline: power, productive, performative, multiple, discourse, discursive regimes and apparatuses, materiality, relationship to power, power/knowledge, truth, three types of power, sovereignty, disciplinary, biopower, racism, governmentality and liberalism, resistance. Its connected to other things, it"s a complex interaction: not one person holds power, everyone has a slightly different role of power, network= multiple points, requires resistance, power always has resistance, even in the most dominating circumstances. Individuals= nodes- plays an active role in power relations: power = set of relations dispersed throughout society. Don"t have sex before marriage (something we can relate to in queer legal theory: ex. Men and women only get married: discursive apparatuses. Ideas that form reality: discourse structures reality- it is always material, associated with power, discourse is regulated. Power/knowledge: knowledge is part of power struggles, who gets to say it and why they get to say it, production of "truth, system of knowledge= truth regime, ex.